Special Collection 21

Separation, Divorce, Repartnering, and Remarriage around the World

Published 19 October 2017

This Special Collection of Demographic Research – edited by Benoît Laplante and Andrew Cherlin – brings together ten papers that, in earlier versions, were presented at the International Seminar on Union Breakdown and Repartnering around the World, in Montreal, Canada, in 2015. The special collection provides a broad international overview of trends in union dissolution and repartnering. It reveals the great diversity of patterns of union dissolution and repartnering not only among regions of the world but also within regions.

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22 December 2009 | research article

Spousal separation, selectivity and contextual effects: exploring the relationship between international labour migration and fertility in post-Soviet Tajikistan

David Clifford

Volume: 21 Article ID: 32
Pages: 945–975
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.32

17 December 2009 | research article

High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Hill Kulu, Paul Boyle, Gunnar Andersson

Volume: 21 Article ID: 31
Pages: 915–944
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.31

15 December 2009 | research article

Diverging trends in female old-age mortality: A reappraisal

L. Daniel Staetsky

Volume: 21 Article ID: 30
Pages: 885–914
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.30

11 December 2009 | formal relationship

Survival as a Function of Life Expectancy

Maxim Finkelstein, James W. Vaupel

Volume: 21 Article ID: 29
Pages: 879–884
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.29

08 December 2009 | descriptive finding

Assortative matching among same-sex and different-sex couples in the United States, 1990-2000

Christine Schwartz, Nikki Graf

Volume: 21 Article ID: 28
Pages: 843–878
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.28

04 December 2009 | research article

Regional child care availability and fertility decisions in Spain

Pau Baizan

Volume: 21 Article ID: 27
Pages: 803–842
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.27

25 November 2009 | research article

Couples’ decisions on having a first child : Comparing pathways to early and late parenthood

Arieke Rijken, Trudie Knijn

Volume: 21 Article ID: 26
Pages: 765–802
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.26

18 November 2009 | formal relationship

The metastable birth trajectory

Robert Schoen

Volume: 21 Article ID: 25
Pages: 759–764
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.25

10 November 2009 | research article

When Harry left Sally: A New Estimate of Marital Disruption in the U.S., 1860 - 1948

Tomas Cvrcek

Volume: 21 Article ID: 24
Pages: 719–758
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.24

06 November 2009 | research article

Lowest-Low Fertility: Signs of a recovery in Italy?

Marcantonio Caltabiano, Maria Castiglioni, Alessandro Rosina

Volume: 21 Article ID: 23
Pages: 681–718
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.23

03 November 2009 | descriptive finding

Rates of induced abortion in Denmark according to age, previous births and previous abortions

Marie-Louise H. Hansen, Ditte Mølgaard-Nielsen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Niels Keiding

Volume: 21 Article ID: 22
Pages: 647–680
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.22

30 October 2009 | descriptive finding

Social inequality and HIV-testing: Comparing home- and clinic-based testing in rural Malawi

Alexander Weinreb, Guy Stecklov

Volume: 21 Article ID: 21
Pages: 627–646
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.21

27 October 2009 | research article

Understanding low fertility in Poland: Demographic consequences of gendered discrimination in employment and post-socialist neoliberal restructuring

Joanna Z. Mishtal

Volume: 21 Article ID: 20
Pages: 599–626
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.20

23 October 2009 | descriptive finding

Dissecting the compression of mortality in Switzerland, 1876-2005

Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Jean-Marie Robine, Fred Paccaud, Alfio Marazzi

Volume: 21 Article ID: 19
Pages: 569–598
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.19

20 October 2009 | descriptive finding

Results and observations from the reconstruction of continuous time series of mortality by cause of death: Case of West Germany, 1968-1997.

Markéta Pechholdová

Volume: 21 Article ID: 18
Pages: 535–568
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.18

16 October 2009 | research article

Estimating health expectancies from two cross-sectional surveys: The intercensal method

Michel Guillot, Yan Yu

Volume: 21 Article ID: 17
Pages: 503–534
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.17

13 October 2009 | research article

Darwin and Lotka: Two Concepts of Population

Philip Kreager

Volume: 21 Article ID: 16
Pages: 469–502
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.16

09 October 2009 | research article

The Likoma Network Study: Context, data collection and initial results

Stéphane Helleringer, Hans-Peter Kohler, Agnes Chimbiri, Praise Chatonda, James Mkandawire

Volume: 21 Article ID: 15
Pages: 427–468
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.15

06 October 2009 | research article

150 Years of temperature-related excess mortality in the Netherlands

Peter Ekamper, Frans van Poppel, Coen van Duin, Joop Garssen

Volume: 21 Article ID: 14
Pages: 385–426
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.14

01 October 2009 | research article

Determinants of infant and child mortality in Zimbabwe: Results of multivariate hazard analysis

Joshua Kembo, Jeroen K Van Ginneken

Volume: 21 Article ID: 13
Pages: 367–384
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.13

14 September 2009 | research article

Schelling's Segregation Model: Parameters, scaling, and aggregation

Abhinav Singh, Dmitri Vainchtein, Howard Weiss

Volume: 21 Article ID: 12
Pages: 341–366
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.12

10 September 2009 | research article

Sexual behaviour patterns in South Africa and their association with the spread of HIV: insights from a mathematical model

Leigh Johnson, Rob Dorrington, Debbie Bradshaw, Victoria Pillay-Van Wyk, Thomas Rehle

Volume: 21 Article ID: 11
Pages: 289–340
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.11

04 September 2009 | research article

The Malawi Religion Project:: Data collection and selected analyses

Jimi Adams, Jenny Trinitapoli

Volume: 21 Article ID: 10
Pages: 255–288
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.10

25 August 2009 | research article

Death distribution methods for estimating adult mortality: Sensitivity analysis with simulated data errors

Kenneth Hill, Danzhen You, Yoonjoung Choi

Volume: 21 Article ID: 9
Pages: 235–254
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.9

18 August 2009 | research article

Is Poland really 'immune' to the spread of cohabitation?

Anna Matysiak

Volume: 21 Article ID: 8
Pages: 215–234
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.8

13 August 2009 | descriptive finding

"Living Apart Together" relationships in the United States

Charles Strohm, Judith Seltzer, Susan Cochran, Vickie Mays

Volume: 21 Article ID: 7
Pages: 177–214
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.7

11 August 2009 | research article

Do imputed education histories provide satisfactory results in fertility analysis in the Western German context?

Cordula Zabel

Volume: 21 Article ID: 6
Pages: 135–176
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.6

07 August 2009 | research article

An analysis of life expectancy and economic production using expectile frontier zones

Sabine K. Schnabel, Paul Eilers

Volume: 21 Article ID: 5
Pages: 109–134
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.5

31 July 2009 | research article

Neither single, nor in a couple. A study of living apart together in France

Arnaud Régnier-Loilier, Eva Beaujouan, Catherine Villeneuve-Gokalp

Volume: 21 Article ID: 4
Pages: 75–108
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.4

10 July 2009 | reflection

Relationships between men´s gender attitudes and fertility: Response to Puur et al.'s "Men’s childbearing desires and views of the male role in Europe at the dawn of the 21st century"

Charles F. Westoff, Jenny Higgins

Volume: 21 Article ID: 3
Pages: 65–74
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.3

07 July 2009 | research article

An application of the variable-r method to subpopulation growth rates in a 19th century agricultural population

Corey Sparks

Volume: 21 Article ID: 2
Pages: 23–64
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.2

03 July 2009 | descriptive finding

Leaving home, family support and intergenerational ties in Italy: Some regional differences

Elisabetta Santarelli, Francesco Cottone

Volume: 21 Article ID: 1
Pages: 1–22
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.1